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Analog House / Olson Kundig + Faulkner Architects

Valeria Silva — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Designed in collaboration with the client – an architect based in Truckee – Analog House celebrates a rugged, high desert site populated by ponderosa pine, manzanita, and exposed basalt. The home’s footprint meanders through the understory, deliberately shaped to preserve existing specimen trees and create a protected internal courtyard. Extensive transparency and clerestory windows throughout the home provide access to views and daylight, while numerous indoor/outdoor connections link occupants to their surroundings, an important consideration for this active family.

Big Barn / Faulkner Architects

Paula Pintos — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:00:00 +0000

North of San Francisco, in Glen Ellen, a less populated part of the Napa wine country, the culture has been based on agriculture and was named for an original winery. Jack London made this his permanent home here in the early 1900s. Drawn by the land, London believed in the redemptive qualities of rural life. Less than an hour from the city, rolling hills covered with groves of oak trees surround the downtown.

Tack Barn / Faulkner Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:00:00 +0000

In the early 1900s, writer Jack London made his permanent home in Glen Ellen, California, a less populated part of the California wine country 50 miles north of San Francisco. Drawn by the land, London believed in the redemptive qualities of rural life. As the first step in creating a similar kind of retreat in Glen Ellen for themselves, a San Francisco family and repeat client asked us to reclaim a 1950s tack barn as living space. The family wanted to stay in the barn on weekends in order to get the lay off the land for future planning and construction.

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU / Steven Holl Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Sited at the edge of the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond, Virginia, the new Institute for Contemporary Art links the University with the surrounding community. On the busiest intersection of Richmond at Broad and Belvidere Streets, the building forms a gateway to the University with an inviting sense of openness. The main entrance is formed by an intersection of the performance space and Forum, adding a vertical “Z” component to the “X-Y” movement of the intersection. The torsion of these intersecting bodies is joined by a “plane of the present” to the galleries in “forking time.”

In Progress: Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU / Steven Holl Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:00:00 +0000

The open design of the ICA features dynamic exhibition and programming spaces that can be creatively activated in order to support widely varied forms of contemporary art. The glass walls and windows create continuity between the interior and exterior spaces of the building. On the first floor, a 4,000-square-foot gallery and café, bar, and concept shop radiate from the ICA’s central forum and frame an outdoor garden, which Steven Holl describes as the “Thinking Field,” that will be used for social gatherings and public programs. The first floor also features a state-of-the-art 240-seat auditorium for film screenings, performances, lectures, and other programs. The second floor includes two forking galleries and an adaptable “learning lab” for interactive engagement. It also includes a publicly accessible terrace, featuring one of four green roofs. The third floor features a gallery with soaring, 33-foot-high walls and houses one of the administrative suites and the boardroom. Additional staff offices are located in the building’s lower level, which also includes a lobby for visitors, art storage and preparation facilities, a fabrication workshop, a green room, the catering kitchen, and general storage.

Beach House / Aamodt / Plumb Architects

Sebastian Jordana — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Beach House is located on a narrow barrier island on the south shore of Long Island, an hour and a half from Manhattan. With exposures to the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Shinnecock Bay on the other, the property is regularly subjected to extreme coastal weather conditions. The design had to reconcile the desire to openly experience the landscape with a real need for protection.

The Prayer Chapel / debartolo architects

Nico Saieh — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The PRAYER PAVILION OF LIGHT is part of a 58-acre church campus in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Sited along the edge of a desert preserve, a series of inclined, landscaped planes are incised by a 600 foot-long processional walk, progressively revealing the orthogonal chapel as one gradually ascends the 28 vertical feet between the chapel mount and garden entrance.